Example sentences of "[conj] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 2 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 3 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 4 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 5 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 6 | Except for the first two days , the decaying component is well fitted by an exponential with 18-day time constant , but we now see that the glitch also leaves a nondecaying increase in rotation rate . |
| 7 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 8 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |
| 9 | However , in the non-proportional tax rate case , the virtual income is also altered ( except for the first segment ) , generating a further income effect which will serve to alter labour supply . |
| 10 | The best cleavage is found at the central GpC ; all the ApT sites are cut at about 25% of this rate , except for the first ApT on the 5'-side which shows no detectable cleavage . |
| 11 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 12 | But time and expense means I have to economise and therefore I choose to bait every other day except for the last three days when I will bait on each of them . |
| 13 | The winner of the toss usually wound his string around his hand except for the last six inches , this ensured a good sharp and hard blow on the other conker . |
| 14 | The whole of this passage is spoken by the Wanderer , except for the last lines where the The Solitary ( called the Sceptic because he reads Voltaire ) answers back . |
| 15 | He managed to connect all the moves except for the last in one push and doubtless would have succeeded given more time . |
| 16 | ‘ Here the contract of salvage was entered into in the Paracels and all the work of refloating and putting the vessel into a condition to be towed to Hong Kong and nearly all the tow , except for the last three miles , were completed beyond the territorial limits of Hong Kong and consequently I take the view that the profits must be said to arise outside of Hong Kong rather than inside . |
| 17 | Andy got them all with his first shot except for the last one . |
| 18 | These figures in Table 1.2 are derived from spectroscopic studied except for the last , which is discussed later . |
| 19 | Except for the last Albanians in the Labour party , I do not believe that anyone seriously disputes that the process of competition is essential to maximise what is bought for the taxpayer . |
| 20 | Except for the last one , which is a track on a Robyn Hitchcock LP . |
| 21 | So it 's commas between the items on the list , except for the last two where you 're using and . |
| 22 | except for the last one which I missed off the last time . |
| 23 | All meta-analysis techniques gave similar p values for association and homogeneity , except for the 6th month . |
| 24 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 25 | Moreover , few British schools at present include private study periods on the timetable , except for the sixth form , so the teacher knows that his students can only see the sequence in breaks and before and after school , unless he allows time in his own assigned periods with them . |
| 26 | The walls were panelled in mahogany except for the fourth wall behind him . |
| 27 | Except for the fourth and fifth which is easy cos that 's just one semitone less . |
| 28 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 29 | Neither then nor for the next four days . |
| 30 | Roberts said it was ‘ pathetic ’ that for the second meeting with scientists in less than a week , the Tories had failed to send a spokesman . |